The fight against inequality, the fight against The Default, is a fight for white spiritual and emotional freedom, not just the freedom of people of color, women, or gays and lesbians.
In a diffuse but thought-provoking essay at Salon, Kartina Richardson explores the idea of whiteness as neutral, and how it limits writers of every race.
She covers miles of ground, from Lena Dunham’s problematic version of writing what you know to Tao Lin’s strategy of glossing over his characters’ ethnicities because “If I put in a character’s race, some readers would assume, like, ‘Oh his problems are because he’s being discriminated against.'”
